"his arrangement, and even recorded it with Charles Munch leading the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. American composer Stephen Sondheim wrote a senior paper in college on the piece. The piece is featured prominently in ""Morale Victory,"" an episode from the 8th season of the long-running American television series ""M*A*S*H"". Major Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) uses it and Wittgenstein's story to convince a drafted concert pianist (James Stephens), whose right hand has been permanently injured in combat, not to give up his musical gift despite his wounds. Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel) The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand"
"was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by his Ballets Russes on 8 June 1912. The orchestra was conducted by Pierre Monteux, the choreography was by Michel Fokine, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina danced the parts of Daphnis and Chloé. Léon Bakst designed the original sets. At almost an hour long, ""Daphnis et Chloé"" is Ravel's longest work. In spite of the ballet's duration, four discernable leitmotifs give musical unity to the score. The music, some of the composer's most passionate, is widely regarded as some of Ravel's best, with extraordinarily lush harmonies typical of the impressionist"
"Daphnis et Alcimadure Daphnis et Alcimadure (in Occitan classical norm, Dafnís e Alcimadura, or according to the original libretto spelling, Daphnis e Alcimaduro) is an opera by the Baroque violinist, conductor and composer Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville to a libretto in the Occitan language, written by the composer himself and loosely inspired by La Fontaine's fable bearing the same title. It takes the form of a pastorale in three acts and was later endowed with a prologue in French entitled ""Les jeux floraux"", to a libretto by Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon. The opera was first staged on 24 October"
"violins, cello and piano left-hand, Op. 23. Wittgenstein owned the exclusive performing rights to the Concerto until his death in 1961, and it gradually slipped from the repertoire. It was revived by Gary Graffman, who gave it its United Kingdom premiere in 1985 and it has since had a number of performances. It has been recorded by Marc-André Hamelin, Howard Shelley, and Steven de Groote. Most recently, Nicolas Stavy performs Korngold's Left Hand Concerto with the Orchestre national de Lille under the direction of Paul Polivnick. Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Korngold) Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Piano Concerto for the"
"Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), ""Danse macabre"" (1874), the opera ""Samson and Delilah"" (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third (""Organ"") Symphony (1886) and ""The Carnival of the Animals"" (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri,"
"Capriccio (Janáček) The Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Chamber Ensemble (sometimes titled Defiance, in Czech: ""Vzdor"") is a composition by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. The work was written in the autumn of 1926 and is remarkable not just in the context of Janáček's output, but it also occupies an exceptional position in the literature written for piano played only by the left hand. The piece is scored for piano, flute, two trumpets, three trombones and tenor tuba. The work was apparently inspired by the request of the pianist Otakar Hollmann, who had lost the use of his right hand"
"Organ Concerto (Poulenc) The Concerto pour orgue, cordes et timbales (Concerto for organ, timpani and strings) in G minor, FP 93, is an organ concerto composed by Francis Poulenc between 1934 and 1938. It has become one of the most frequently performed pieces of the genre not written in the Baroque period. The organ concerto was commissioned by Princess Edmond de Polignac in 1934, as a piece with a chamber orchestra accompaniment and an easy organ part that the princess could probably play herself. The commission was originally given to Jean Françaix, who declined, but Poulenc accepted. Poulenc quickly abandoned"
"Organ Concerto (Poulenc) The Concerto pour orgue, cordes et timbales (Concerto for organ, timpani and strings) in G minor, FP 93, is an organ concerto composed by Francis Poulenc between 1934 and 1938. It has become one of the most frequently performed pieces of the genre not written in the Baroque period. The organ concerto was commissioned by Princess Edmond de Polignac in 1934, as a piece with a chamber orchestra accompaniment and an easy organ part that the princess could probably play herself. The commission was originally given to Jean Françaix, who declined, but Poulenc accepted. Poulenc quickly abandoned"
"Jacques Février Jacques Février (26 July 1900 – 2 September 1979) was a French pianist and teacher. Jacques Février was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of the composer Henry Février. He studied with Édouard Risler and Marguerite Long at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a ""premier prix"" in 1921. In 1932 he and the composer were the soloists in the first performance of Francis Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos. Although Paul Wittgenstein premiered Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, Février was expressly chosen by the composer to be the first French pianist to perform the work. He made many recordings"
"Les fêtes de Paphos Les fêtes de Paphos (""The Festivals of Paphos"") is an ""opéra-ballet"" in three acts (or ""entrées"") by the French composer Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville. The work was described as a ""ballet héroïque"" on the title page of the printed score. Each act had a different librettist. ""Les fêtes de Paphos"" was first performed at the Académie royale de musique, Paris on 9 May 1758 and was a popular success. Mondonville recycled material from two of his previous operas for the first two acts, namely ""Erigone"" (1747) and ""Vénus et Adonis"" (1752), both originally composed for Madame"
"concerti for ""left-hand"" alone exist). Henri Cliquet-Pleyel Henri Cliquet-Pleyel was a French composer born on March 12, 1894 in Paris, and died in that city on May 9, 1963. In 1913 he undertook musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris under teachers André Gedalge and Eugène Cools, from whom he learned counterpoint and fugue, before taking up composition studies with Charles Koechlin, who had taught such diverse musicians as Poulenc, Milhaud (members of the group Les Six) and Cole Porter. He obtained a position as director of vocal studies at the school in Cannes, later transferring to Deauville, and finally"
"the century, however, harmonic and metric devices became either more rigid, or much more unpredictable, and each approach had a liberating effect on rhythm, which also affected ballet. Diaghilev was a pioneer in adapting these new musical styles to modern ballet. When Ravel used a time in the final part of his ballet ""Daphnis and Chloe"" (1912), dancers of the Ballets Russes sang ""Ser-gei-dia-ghi-lev"" during rehearsals to keep the correct rhythm. Members of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes later went on to found ballet traditions in the United States (George Balanchine) and England (Ninette de Valois and Marie Rambert). Ballet master Serge"
"composer Joseph Eduard Barat (1882–1963). Some of the pieces in this school were written specifically for trombone, such as Barat's ""Andante and Allegro"" (1935) and Alexandre Guilmant's ""Morçeau Symphonique"" (c. 1937), some for trombone or euphonium, such as Paul Veronge de la Nux's ""Concert Piece"" (1900), some for euphonium or tuba, such as Barat's ""Introduction and Dance"", and at least one specifically for euphonium, Barat's ""Morçeau de Concours"" (1957). ¹ The earliest surviving solo composition written specifically for euphonium or one of its saxhorn cousins is the ""Concerto per Flicorno Basso"" (1872) by Amilcare Ponchielli. Quite demanding technically, the piece"
"written by Edward Elgar (a violin concerto and a cello concerto), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner (four and three piano concertos, respectively), Jean Sibelius (a violin concerto), Frederick Delius (a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello), Karol Szymanowski (two violin concertos and a ""Symphonie Concertante"" for piano), and Richard Strauss (two horn concertos, a violin concerto, ""Don Quixote""—a tone poem that features the cello as a soloist—and among later works, an oboe concerto). However, in the first decades of the 20th century, several composers such as Debussy, Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith,"
"ballet danced to the orchestral version of ""Le tombeau de Couperin"" was given at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in November 1920, and the premiere of ""La valse"" followed in December. The following year ""Daphnis et Chloé"" and "" L'heure espagnole"" were successfully revived at the Paris Opéra. In the post-war era there was a reaction against the large-scale music of composers such as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. Stravinsky, whose ""Rite of Spring"" was written for a huge orchestra, began to work on a much smaller scale. His 1923 ballet score ""Les noces"" is composed for voices and twenty-one instruments."
"Left, alone Left, alone is a piano concerto for the left hand and orchestra by the Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen. The work was commissioned by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk and co-commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Its world premiere was given by the pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester under the direction of Ilan Volkov on January 29, 2016. The piece is dedicated to Alexandre Tharaud. Abrahamsen, who was born with cerebral palsy, has the use of only two fingers in his right hand, limiting his ability"
"in April. ""Daphnis et Chloé"" opened at the same theatre in June. This was his largest-scale orchestral work, and took him immense trouble and several years to complete. ""Daphnis et Chloé"" was commissioned in or about 1909 by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev for his company, the Ballets Russes. Ravel began work with Diaghilev's choreographer, Michel Fokine, and designer, Léon Bakst. Fokine had a reputation for his modern approach to dance, with individual numbers replaced by continuous music. This appealed to Ravel, and after discussing the action in great detail with Fokine, Ravel began composing the music. There were frequent disagreements"
"Maria"", ""Dance of the Hours"", ""Clair de Lune"", ""The Rite of Spring"", and ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"" as the original planned line-up for Walt Disney Pictures' ""Fantasia"". However, both it and ""Clair de Lune"" were removed from the program late in the writing process and ""Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied"" was ultimately replaced with sections from Ludwig van Beethoven's ""Pastoral Symphony"". Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied Cydalise et le chèvre-pied (""Cydalise and the goat-foot"" or ""Cydalise and the satyr"") is a two-act ballet originally choreographed by Léo Staats to a score by Gabriel Pierné. The libretto was written by Gaston Arman de Caillavet"
"the piece reflects Roussel's distinctive orchestration style and his preference for late classical rhythms and harmonies. Bacchus and Ariadne (ballet) Bacchus and Ariadne (), Op. 43 is a ballet score by the French composer Albert Roussel written in 1930. Its composition roughly coincides with that of Roussel's Symphony No. 3. It describes the abduction of Ariadne by Dionysus. The Paris Opera premiered the two-act work under the direction of Philippe Gaubert on 22 May 1931, with choreography by Serge Lifar and sets by Giorgio de Chirico. Roussel created two orchestral suites from the score, the first premiered by Charles Münch"
"Ravel's ""Piano Concerto for the Left Hand"" (with the orchestra Anima Eterna from Bruges). It is also on an Érard piano that she plays both ""Légendes de Saint François"" by Liszt recorded on the album ""Fever"" (La dolce volta/Harmonia Mundi). Claire Chevallier Claire Chevallier (born in 1969) is a Franco-Belgian pianist who specializes in the fortepiano. Chevallier studied piano at the Conservatoires of Nancy and Strasbourg (class of Hélène Boschi) then with Bruno Rigutto in Paris. She then continued her training at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with and Guy Van Waas. She received a First Prize for piano and"
"of five in Anthony Plog's ""Aesop’s Fables"" for narrator, piano and horn (1989/93); it is also one of the five pieces in Bob Chilcott's ""Aesop's Fables"" for piano and choir (2008). And, under the title ""The Wind and the Sun"", the English composer Philip Godfrey (b.1964) has made a setting for children's choir and piano. La Fontaine's ""Phébus et Borée"" was choreographed in 2006 by as part of Annie Sellem's composite ballet production of La Fontaine's fables as a 25-minute performance for a male and female dancer. Its creator has commented on the fable's theme that 'it demonstrates people's vulnerability"
"studied them both, he will derive continual inspiration from great scores."" Concerto Barocco Concerto Barocco is a ballet made for students at the School of American Ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently ballet master and co-founder of New York City Ballet, to Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043. After an open dress rehearsal on May 29, 1941, in the Little Theatre of Hunter College, New York, the official premiere took place June 27, 1941, at Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro as part of American Ballet Caravan's South American tour. ""Concerto Barocco"" subsequently entered the"
"Les noces Les noces (French; ; , ""Svadebka"") is a ballet and orchestral concert work composed by Igor Stravinsky for percussion, pianists, chorus, and vocal soloists. The composer gave it the descriptive title ""Choreographed Scenes with Music and Voices"" and dedicated it to impresario Sergei Diaghilev. Though initially intended to serve as a ballet score, it is often performed without dance. The ballet premiered under the musical direction of Ernest Ansermet at the Ballets Russes with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska on 13 June 1923, in Paris. Several versions of the score have been performed, either substituting orchestra for the percussion"
"Flute Concertino (Chaminade) Cécile Chaminade's Flute Concertino in D major, Op. 107, was composed in 1902 for flute and piano and later arranged for flute and orchestra. Scholarship indicates that the Concertino was commissioned by the Paris Conservatoire in 1902, presumably as an examination piece for flute students, where the celebrated French flautist and teacher Paul Taffanel, to whom the Concertino was dedicated, taught. Among flautists, legend has it that Chaminade wrote the Concertino to punish a flute-playing lover after he left her to marry someone else, wanting to make a piece so fiendishly difficult that he could not play"
"produced the ballet at the New York State Theater, featuring Frank Ohman, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Heather Watts, and Victor Castelli. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (ballet) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme refers to two different ballets by George Balanchine set to Richard Strauss's ""Concert Suite"" (1924), with a libretto after Molière's 17th-century comédie-ballet of the same name. The first Balanchine ""Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"" ballet was produced in 1932 by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In 1979, Balanchine (with the assistance of Jerome Robbins) created all-new choreography for ""Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"", which premiered on 8 April 1979, with the New York City Opera"
"Panizza; and ""Noël"", produced at the Paris Opéra-Comique on 28 December 1910. In 1935 his ballet ""Les cents baisers"", with a libretto by Boris Kochno, was produced by the Ballets Russes, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska, with decor and costumes by Jean Hugo. His other works included a string quartet, a sonata for violin and pianoforte, an ""Andante symphonique"" for cello and orchestra, a quintet for pianoforte and strings, a ""Suite symphonique"" for orchestra (1895), a violin concerto, Op. 17, played by Fritz Kreisler at the Philharmonic Concert of 12 March 1903, and a ""Concerto symphonique"" for piano and orchestra (1921)."
"A concert suite follows the three dances of the second stage of the ballet. All the music is by Debussy, orchestrated by Koechlin. The writer Jean-Pascal Vachon writes that the work is uneven and austere, with muted orchestral colours and the dominance of the lower register, but is typical of late Debussy, with possible echoes of Stravinsky’s ""Petrushka"" (1911) and pre-echoes of his own ""Jeux"" (1913) in its textures and rhythmic organisation. Khamma (ballet) Khamma (""légende dansée"") is music by Claude Debussy originally intended for a ballet. It was composed in 1911–13, commissioned for the Canadian dancer Maud Allan, who"
"ballets ""The Nutcracker"", ""Swan Lake"", and ""The Sleeping Beauty""; as well as Alexander Glazunov for his score for the ballet ""Raymonda"". In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as ""Le Talisman"" (1889), ""Le Réveil de Flore"" (1894) and ""Les Millions d'Arlequin"" (1900). Cesare Pugni wrote extensively for the harp as well—his ballet ""Éoline, ou La Dryade"" included music written for harp to accompany the ballerina's numerous variations and enhance the atmosphere of the ballet's many fantastical scenes. Ludwig Minkus was celebrated for his harp cadenzas, most notably the ""Variation de la Reine"
"Boléro Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition. Before ""Boléro"", Ravel had composed large-scale ballets (such as ""Daphnis et Chloé"", composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (such as the second orchestral version of ""Ma mère l'oye"", 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (such as ""La valse"", 1906–1920). Apart from such compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled dances,"
"from the ballet. Stravinsky arranged it in collaboration with Samuel Dushkin in 1934 and revised it in 1949. It has four movements: Balanchine created an entirely new work for the City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival, using excerpts from the concert suite and the original ballet. The premiere took place on 21 June 1972, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. In 1974, Balanchine incorporated Tchaikovsky's ""None but the Lonely Heart"" for a new ""pas de deux"". Le baiser de la fée Le baiser de la fée (""The Fairy's Kiss"") is a ballet in one act and four scenes composed by"
"transcriptions of organ works by Alkan. In September 2014 he was nominated ""Honorary Member"" of the London Alkan Society. His repertoire goes from the baroque to modern music, with a particular interest in romantic music and in the less-performed piano repertoire (Alkan, Leopold Godowsky, Élie-Miriam Delaborde, Jean-Henri Ravina, Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, Cécile Chaminade, et al.). He also published for Ries&Erler piano transcriptions of the Second Suite from the ballet ""Daphnis et Chloé"" by M. Ravel and the Symphony by Hans Rott, the first piano solo concert transcription of that work. He is one of the founders and a piano teacher of"
"""Classic Music: Expression, Form, and Style,"" Leonard G. Ratner cites the fourth movement as a representative example of the polonaise. Serenade for Violin, Viola and Cello (Beethoven) The Serenade in D major for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 8, is a string trio composition by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was written from 1796–97, and published in 1797 by Artaria in Vienna. The composition is in six movements A typical performance takes around 26–30 minutes. In 1803, Franz Xaver Heinz Klein arranged this piece for viola and piano. It was published as the ""Notturno for Viola and Piano in D major"","
"Les élémens Les élémens (""The Elements""), or Ballet des élémens, is an opéra-ballet by the French composers André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande (or de Lalande). It has a prologue and four ""entrées"". The libretto was written by Pierre-Charles Roy. Destouches was responsible for most of the music. It has never been ascertained how much each composer contributed to the composition. In a 1726 letter, Destouches wrote to Antonio I, Prince of Monaco: ""We were ordered to work in partnership; he [Delalande] wrote very fine things whose details I implore you to spare me, for he demanded of me"